haha, that sounded like my highschool tech administrator, big knowlege, could go anywhere, stood in the city for his daughter to graduate.
He had a knowlege of around 35 programming languages, plus non-x86 oriented platforms! (sparc, etc) He was also a leet admin, when I used to jr.admin for him he'd find some kiddie on a gamesite eating his bandwidth, then he'd remotely close the program and netsend messages! :p